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welcome to the 2011 Consumer Electronic Show it's Friday January seventh I'm Natali Morris coming to you from Las Vegas this week it's time to get loaded here is dell's tablet offering here at CES 2011 the dell streak 7 it's an Android tablet that has a 2.2 gigahertz NVIDIA Tegra dual-core processor so it's got some guts it's seven inches and it will run on t-mobile dell already does have a 5-inch version of the streak that hit the market last year skype announced that it is acquiring quick the mobile video streaming service skype did not discuss how the service would be integrated but i'm guessing that mobile video chatting and streaming are top of mind the deal is said to be worth 100 million dollars Polaroid announced a new line of cameras and printers designed by the venerable product manager lady gaga the new grey label product line features sunglasses with a camera embedded in them because why the heck not and a camera that shoots both digital and Polaroid images there's also a printer that's small enough to travel with that prints your photos over bluetooth straight from your camera verizon has been showing off a home broadband and energy usage monitoring service here at the show it's called home monitoring and control it will roll out in new jersey this quarter and then more broadly throughout the country later this year it will let you monitor your home security and your home energy online for what they're calling a nominal fee reald announced a universal 3d glasses system one of the biggest drawbacks on 3d in the home is that the glasses for one system don't necessarily work for the other until now reald has not given their product a name yet but it relies on active shutter glasses input from various TVs they hope to begin production in the second quarter of this year and in non SI es related news Apple launched its Mac App Store on Thursday and in its first day it saw over 1 million apps downloaded this is the store that brings iPhone like apps to the desktop it has over 1000 free and paid apps available and finally a few silly things out of the show first off you've heard of motion-controlled gaming but how about I ball controlled game a company called Waterloo labs is showing off just this very thing it uses the motion of your eyeballs to control things on a screen and the dream bots are also worth looking into they are little body massagers that wheel around your back and dig into your very sore muscles with four studded wheels at something I will have to check out later that's your news of the day but CES is of course not over and cnet TV has a lot more great coverage for you so be sure you stay tuned to cnet TV or Cesc netcom for more comprehensive coverage of the show I'm Natali Morris for cnet.com and you've just been loaded